Speakers in order of appearance.
Entrance included in Day Pass or Weekend Pass, except where marked.
A to Z of Speakers 2017 – photos and biographies
Pre-Festival event – Tuesday
Beverley Turner (The Happy Birth Book) – Free
Lucy Cufflin (Lucy’s Food) – £20
Pre-Festival event – Wednesday
Waterstones Local Authors Party – Free
Vicki MacKenzie (The Revolutionary Life of Freda Bedi)
Henry Hemming (M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster)
Emma Henderson (The Valentine House)
Matt Jardine (The Hardest Path)
Tor Udall (A Thousand Paper Birds)
Sarah Lipton (A Journey into Fear and Fantasy)
Jason Farrell & Paul Goldsmith (How to Lose a Referendum)
Stephanie Nimmo (Was This in the Plan?)
Jo Pratt (The Flexible Vegetarian)
Kerensa Jennings (Seas of Snow)
Alice Peterson (A Song for Tomorrow)
Lotte Moore
Dexter Dias (The Ten Types of Human)
Lucie Maxwell (The Legend of Skara Brae)
Paul Keers (I’ve Bought it So I’ll Drink It)
Thursday
An Evening with Jane Austen – £10
Dr Esmé Whittaker (Curator, Chiswick House)
Helena Kelly (The Secret Radical)
Paula Byrne (The Genius of Jane Austen)
Torin Douglas (Chiswick Book Festival)
Friday
Clare Balding (The Racehorse Who Disappeared) – £4
Hunter Davies (A Life In The Day) – £10
Roger Bolton (Feedback)
Saturday
John Preston (A Very English Scandal)
Robin Lustig (Is Anything Happening?)
David Baddiel (The Birthday Boy) – £10
Nicolette Jones (Sunday Times)
Luigi Bonomi (LBA)
Martine Wright (Unbroken)
Sue Mott
Will Grove-White (Ukulele for Beginners)
Zehra Hicks (Giraffe and Frog) – Free
Jill Dawson (The Crime Writer)
James Thornton (Client Earth)
Martin Goodman (University of Hull)
Jo Coburn (Daily Politics)
Cathy Rentzenbrink (A Manual For Heartache)
Julia Samuel (Grief Works)
Laurence Rees (The Holocaust)
Zoe Antoniades (Invincible Voices Storytime) – Free
Dave Randall (Sound System: The Political Power of Music)
Caroline Frost (Blue: All Rise: Our Story)
Rachel Joyce (The Music Shop)
Sarah Winman (Tin Man)
Hannah Beckerman
Craig Oliver (Unleashing Demons)
Harry Mount (Summer Madness)
John O’Farrell (Things Can Only Get Worse)
Stefanie Bolzen (Die Welt)
Shrabani Basu (Victoria and Abdul: The Queen’s Closest Confidant)
Deborah Cadbury (Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking)
Caroline Raphael (Dora Productions)
Oz Clarke (A Life In Wine)
Jo Pratt (The Flexible Vegetarian)
Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn (The Scummy Mummies) – £10
Matt Coyne (Dummy) – £10
Jeremy Vine (What I Learnt) – £10
Sunday
Mark Oakley (The Splash of Words)
Joe Bromley & Willow Nash (Really Big Pants Theatre Company) – Free
Louise Lamont (LBA)
Peter Hennessy (Reflections)
Robin Lustig (Is Anything Happening?)
Adam Kay (This Is Going To Hurt)
Cathy Rentzenbrink (A Manual For Heartache)
Emma Henderson (The Valentine House)
Marcel Theroux (The Secret Books)
Will Storr (Selfie)
Julia Wheeler
Maggie O’Farrell (I Am, I Am, I Am)
Lola House (Inspire Little Minds) – Free
Natalie Haynes (The Children of Jocasta)
Francesca Main (Publishing Director, Picador)
Anne Sebba (Les Parisiennes)
Elizabeth Buchan (The New Mrs Clifton)
Ross Montgomery (The Building Boy) – Free
Nicholas Crane (The Making of the British Landscape)
Katherine Price (Get Plants)
Richard Barley (Director of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Tony Hall (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Gay Search
Jo Malone (My Story)
Sarah Outen (Dare To Do)
Paul Blezard
Monday
Crime Series: Nowhere Like London – £3
Mick Herron (Spook Street)
Leslie Thomson (The Dogwalker)
William Shaw (Sympathy for the Devil)
Torin Douglas (Chiswick Book Festival)